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By Anne Marie Fauvel, fauvela@gvsu.edu
Affiliate Professor at Grand Valley State University, Michigan
I became interested in honeybees a few years back. In fact, people around me say I have become obsessed with them. It began as a hobby but these fascinating insects quickly took over my life, as I am Read more >

For most of our readers, June is about the first month when apiary management isn’t too different in the north or the south. As always, what you need to do with your hives this time of year varies by your management philosophy, apiary goals, current weather, likely weather, and condition of your Read more >

By Dennis Brown, Lone Star Farms, www.lonestarfarms.net
Author of Beekeeping: A Personal Journey and Beekeeping: Questions and Answers
Here in Texas and many other parts of the South, beekeepers depend on the tallow tree for their main honey flow this time of year. Unfortunately, the state of Texas Read more >

By Michael Bush
Editor’s Note: We ran this article a year ago. It is so helpful we wanted to repeat it.
We are coming into the time of year that you’ll be doing inspections and finding queens that are failing, missing, or you’re not sure what the deal is but you think some hives are queenless. The Read more >